Here, executive chair Helen Smith reveals the crucial issues for independent labels and how the trade body can help… Read the interview on MusicWeek For the US perspective on the relationship between Brexit and the USMCA see ChrisCastle’s letter to Congress. [read post]

” ChrisCastle’s “Ethical Pool” approach in the influential post “Arithmetic on the Internet” is an interesting interim step that allows both artists and fans to opt in to an allocation based on usage not market share. [read post]

[From 20 Questions for New Artists by ChrisCastle and Amy Mitchell] An independent artist is practically required to sign up with an aggregator in order to have your works serviced to many online outlets–some aggregators service hundreds of different retailers. [read post]

ChrisCastle narrates the issues and proposes a solution for Big Tech’s “Senate strategy” that inevitably includes Senator Ron Wyden, the grifter from Oregon and proud father of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. [read post]

Portia Sabin discusses the European Copyright Directive and the process that got the legislation passed in the European Parliament with Helen Smith of Impala, Crispin Hunt of Ivor Academy and ChrisCastle. [read post]

The Music Modernization Act brought fairness to pre-72 artists who waited 20 years for the government to confirm what everyone knew—that non interactive digital music services like Pandora and Sirius should be paying them performance royalties like everyone else. [read post]

ChrisCastle on how the streaming royalty allocation guarantees a declining royalty for artists SHOW NOTES The Trichordist Streaming Price Bible for 2018 Arithmetic on the Internet: The Ethical Pool Solution to Streaming Royalty Allocation @BBCtrending: The mystery tracks being ‘forced’ on Spotify users–another explanation Laura Kobylecky, Making Fake Art: “1984”, The New Rembrandt, and The “Fake Artist” … [read post]

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